People

• Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H.

  UC Berkeley, School of Public Health

  (510) 642-4397

   

  Meredith Minkler is a professor of health and social behavior and director of the Dr.P.H. Program in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. She is the editor of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health (2nd ed.) (Rutgers University Press 2004). She received her Dr.P.H. in community health education from UC Berkeley.

  
  

• David Minkus, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change

  (510) 643-7539

   

  David Minkus has been a research associate and coordinator of the graduate fellows training program at the Institute for the Study of Social Change for more than two decades. During that time he has worked in research, training, and consultant positions for a variety of projects and programs involved in process and outcome evaluations of programs targeting at-risk youth in K-12 and post-secondary education settings. He recently completed a year long study of “Best Practices among Youth Serving Programs in Berkeley,” with support from The Berkeley Alliance.

  
  

• Michael Omi, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley

   

  Michael Omi is an associate professor in UC Berkeley’s department of ethnic studies and is the interim director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC), one of the Center’s primary partners. His publications include Racial Formation in the United States (with Howard Winant), 2nd ed. (Routledge 1994) and “The Changing Meaning of Race," in Neil Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, editors, America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences (National Academy Press, 2001).

  
  

• Emily Ozer, Ph.D.

  UC Berkeley, School of Public Health

  (510) 642-1723

   

  Emily Ozer is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, where she teaches courses in community interventions, program evaluation, and theories of health and social behavior. Her primary research interests are adolescent health; school-based prevention and health promotion; and psychosocial factors that help promote mental health in the context of exposure to violence and other trauma. Her work with the Center compares the perspectives of adolescents and adults on violence prevention, and how input from youth can potentially strengthen school-based violence prevention programs. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from UC Berkeley.